I am embedding the interview here, and will be editing the videos down to a more manageable size for discussion.
I was glad to see Ron Paul finally agree to come on the TV Show, I wish he had the nads to come on the Radio Show and take calls from the audience. I have a few questions that would show him the error of his thinking on fighting World War IV, instead of running home like cowards.
Update...I found it on Google...so scratch the you tube crap!
Google Rocks! You Tube Sucks!
CNN Transcript is here.
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He doesn't take calls on the TV Show, oh you of limited intelligence!
He has been trying to get him to come on his Radio Show for nearly a year...Ron Paul has accepted once, then didn't show, putting Glenn in a very bad place. The Radio Show has more than 5 million listeners, while the TV Show has only about 350,000 viewers (FOX has 1.6 million in the same time frame.)
Glenn Beck gives everyone the same type of interview. Ron Paul had to go on the show after Glenn released the you tube video.
I will be exceedingly glad when Ron Paul loses the nomination, because he has no support.
I thought Glenn did an excellent job exposing him...stay tuned, as I chop the video into smaller parts for better discussion.
I support Ron Paul and his effort to bring the federal government back in line with the Constitution. But he has some wacky ideas. As Justice Robert H. Jackson in his dissenting opinion in Terminiello v. Chicago, a 1949 free speech case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. And Jefferson's sentiments give one pause, concerning blind adherence to the letter of the law. We must be prudent in the application, or lack there of, of any law. It's called common sense.
Jefferson's Formulation
Jefferson offered one of the earliest formulations of the sentiment, although not of the phrase. In 1803, Thomas Jefferson's ambassadors to France arranged the purchase of the Louisiana territory in conflict with Jefferson's personal belief that the Constitution did not bestow upon the federal government the right to acquire or possess foreign territory. Due to political considerations, however, Jefferson disregarded his constitutional doubts, signed the proposed treaty, and sent it to the Senate for ratification. In justifying his actions, he later wrote: "[a] strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means."[1]
WNC4RonPaul:
Ummm...okay.
White Supremacist, check.
Israel hater, check.
Jew hater, check.
Ron Paul Supporter, check.
Potty Mouth, check.
Yep, you'll go far with that attitude.
I'll wager that at least half of the Ron Paul Supporters are true constructionists...Ron Paul is their Table Rosa upon which they have written their dreams. Those are the ones I call Idiot Ron Paul Supporters. You do a real disservice to the true Paul Supporters, even the wacky pot-smoking ones.
I am not a jew. I am a Christian of Celtic Heritage, with a little Cherokee, German, and mongrel thrown in for spice.
If you ever decide to come out of your mommy's basement, lemme know.
Kathy:
You should see my inbox whenever I post about Ron Paul. I have had over a hundred little hate-bombs already today. At least the last guy signed a trackable user name to his comment. I can respect that, despite his dreams of tossing me in an oven with "the jooos!", the blacks, and the homos, 99.5% of which have more class in their pinkie toe than the whole lot the neo-nazis put together.
I appreciate that bit of info about Jefferson, and the swing at the hater.
Instead of hurling insults at Dr. Paul and his soppurters, why not address his positions?
Wikipedia is a good place to start.
If you have any troublw with the big words, ask your mommy.
What's a "soppurter"? I don't have any troublw with big words, but it seems that racist fucktards think that insulting people will win folks over to Ron Paul.
Jeez, TP, I think I've found folks who are more objectionable than you!
8-)
RP Soppurter:
I have been working on a series of posts about the GOP Candidates, and am overwhelmed by the shear number of candidates, and give up. I'm planning on waiting until the middle of January, and then doing the top three or four.
I have looked at the article you linked to, and find a lot I agree with him on. I'll look at it, and may jkn the wiki article, with my observations written in as annotations.
His position on the war is a deal-breaker. I cannot, in good conscience, vote for someone who is against the war.
My mommy said to use teh intertubes if I have trouble with the big words! ;)
Gordon:
Like I told Kathy, you should see my gmail inox! Oy Vey! such language and promises of close encounters in the dark alleys.
Racists are at the very top of my list of enemies of America, above the jihadis on the list of seek and destroy.
The transparent attempts to continue smearing Ron Paul by association still amuse me. If we all played that game it would be a circular and tiresome one indeed.
Anyway...
Here is my take on the interview:
http://timpeck.blogspot.com/2007/12/glenn-beck-and-ron-paul.html
Tim:
By association, I'm guessing you mean the Pillow-Heads? They kinda make it hard not to notice, what with being vocal and attempting to intimidate opposing views.
Just as circular and tiresome as pointing out which candidate has the "theocratic vote" or which are the "neocons"?
Your post pinged my reader, and I scanned it, and marked the links for later reading offline.
I can go back in my audio archives for every time Glenn Beck mentioned Ron Paul, or his supporters, and show you that you have been lied to, but I think that would be a wasted exercise since your mind is already made up that Glenn Beck hated Ron Paul until last night. Since your source of information is unimpeachable (to you, anyway) then Glenn must have changed his behavior, ergo...your perception of reality has been changed, and new explanations must be made that support that.
You need to be able to read the stitches on these things, or at least be amendable to a later course correction.
You have people like Stephanie Miller "progressive" talk show host gushing over Ron Paul. This strange coalition of polar opposites will not last. The Lefties that are fanatic about Paul, and his Constitutional stance, howl when someone like Carl Mumpower tries to espouse and implement the tenets of the Constitution. I will always say, the only issues the Leftists and the Libertarians have in common with Paul is, he's against the war, and he's "for" legalizing drugs. After that, the other issues such as doing away with many of the entitlements, and a smaller government will not fly. I mean the socialists, which are the majority of the Democrat Party will not stand for that.
The only smear to Ron Paul is if he doesn't denounce these rabid dictatorial fascist supporters. And I never see any of his more sane supporters outraged about these fascist ravings ether.
Notice not a word is said about threats made in the previous post, or any number of other sites that have blatantly unAmerican comments by Paul supporters about denying people the right of free speech, or threats of using Brown Shirted thug tactics of intimidation to shut people up.
More should be done by Paul supporters in condemning these scary, fringe Ron Paul supporting fascists thugs. Not seeing much out of anyone right now.
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